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Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850

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  1. Mark S. R. Jenner

    1. University of York, UK

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  2. Patrick Wallis

    1. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Medical Marketplace

    • Mark S. R. Jenner, Patrick Wallis
    Pages 1-23

  3. Medical Economies in Fifteenth-Century England

    • Robert Ralley
    Pages 24-46

  4. Competition and Cooperation in the Early Modern Medical Economy

    • Patrick Wallis
    Pages 47-68

  5. The Rural Medical Marketplace in Southern England c. 1570–1720

    • Ian Mortimer
    Pages 69-87

  6. Magic, Alchemy and the Medical Economy in Early Modern England: The Case of Robert Fludd’s Magnetical Medicine

    • Lauren Kassell
    Pages 88-107

  7. The Marketplace of Print

    • Mary E. Fissell
    Pages 108-132

  8. Recipe Collections and the Currency of Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern ‘Medical Marketplace’

    • Elaine Leong, Sara Pennell
    Pages 133-152

  9. Midwifery in the ‘Medical Marketplace’

    • Adrian Wilson
    Pages 153-174

  10. Illness in the ‘Social Credit’ and ‘Money’ Economies of Eighteenth-Century New England

    • Ben Mutschler
    Pages 175-195

  11. Medical Marketplaces beyond the West: Bazaar Medicine, Trade and the English Establishment in Eighteenth-Century India

    • Pratik Chakrabarti
    Pages 196-215

  12. Monopoly, Markets and Public Health: Pollution and Commerce in the History of London Water 1780–1830

    • Mark S. R. Jenner
    Pages 216-237

  13. Medicine, Quackery and the Free Market: The ‘War’ against Morison’s Pills and the Construction of the Medical Profession, c. 1830–c. 1850

    • Michael Brown
    Pages 238-261

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 262-269
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About this book

What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. Chapters explore the most important themes in the social history of medicine and offer a fresh understanding of healthcare in this time of social and economic transformation.

Reviews

'For over two decades now, the idea of a medical marketplace has been a vital shaping influence on historians seeking to understand the nature of health provision in pre-modern societies. Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850 provides a splendid critical re-evaluation of the concept. Suggestive, intelligently written and based on primary research across a wide field, this is a volume which no historian of medicine and no specialist of early modern England can afford to be without.' - Professor Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London

'Individually the essays make striking contributions to the literature, and collectively mark a considerable leap forward in analysing the medical marketplace over a long time frame. My students have been clamouring for such a volume for many years.' - Professor Hilary Marland, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of York, UK

    Mark S. R. Jenner

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Patrick Wallis

About the editors

MICHAEL BROWNi Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Kent, UK PRATIK CHAKRABARTI Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine, School of History, University of Kent. UK MARY E. FISSELL Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA MARK S. R. JENNER Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of York, UK LAUREN KASSELL Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK ELAINE LEONG Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK IAN MORTIMER Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK BEN MUTSCHLER Assistant Professor of Histor, Oregon State University, USA SARA PENNELL Lecturer in Early Modern British History, Roehampton University, UK ROBERT RALLEY Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK PATRICK WALLIS Lecturer in the Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ADRAIN WILSON Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK

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